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Jill St. Laurent

President Carley Denis

YES, that is… HERBERT HOOVER Text

WHAT A HUNK!!!

Early Life  Born: August 11, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa  Father: Jesse Hoover  Mother: Huldah Minthorn Hoover  1 brother, Theodore  1 sister, Mary  Orphan at age 9

Mother and Father   Bert, Brother & Sister

Childhood Home 

Schooling & Jobs  Locals Schools as a Youth  Did not graduate from High School

 Stanford University  Mining consulting firm

Mid-Life  Married Lou Henry February 10, 1899  Two sons

 Lived in London in 1901  Hoover and Lou published the translation of De re

Metallica  Before Presidency; During World War I     

American Relief Committee Belgium Relief Committee Served as U.S. Food administrator War and Peace Efforts 1921-1928 served as the Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Hording and Collidge

 Wife and two sons

Bert Fishing 

Presidency  31st President of the United States  1929-1933  Charles Curtis

 1928 elected at the Republican Candidate  Ran against Alfred Smith  Won by 58% and 444 of 531 votes

 Prosperous first year until Black Thursday  Was blamed for The Depression

 Bonus Bill  Refused which made the veterans very upset  100,000 to send the people home on train

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 White House

 Charles Curtis 

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 Bonus Army

Presidency Continued  Supported zoning regulations  Eight hour work days in major industries  Improve nutrition for children  Conservation of natural resources

 Believed in free enterprise and volunteer efforts  Defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt  Retired to Palo Alto, California  Coordinator for Food Supply for World Famine  Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the

Executive Branch of the Government

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Administration and Cabinet

President Herbert Hoover 1929–1933 Vice PresidentCharles Curtis 1929–1933 Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson 1929–1933 Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon 1929–1932 Ogden L. Mills 1932–1933 Secretary of War James W. Good 1929 Patrick J. Hurley 1929–1933 Attorney General William D. Mitchell 1929–1933 Postmaster General Walter F. Brown 1929–1933 Secretary of the Navy Charles F. Adams 1929–1933 Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur 1929–1933 Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde 1929–1933 Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont 1929–1932

 Roy D. Chapin 1932–1933  Secretary of Labor James J. Davis 1929–1930  William N. Doak 1930–1933

 Herberts Angry Face 

 U.S. Food Administration

Accomplishments  U.S. Food Administration during WWI  Commerce Department

 Help organize trade association groups of firms in the

same line of business to minimize prize competition  Bureau of Standards

Accomplishments Continued  Reconstruction Finance Corporation- 1923  Largest ever proposed by any President  2 billion in loans  Theory: stimulate industry and eventually create more

jobs.  Emergency Relief Act-1932 added an extra 300 million  Pollution Act of 1924  Federal Farm Board- 1929

Late Life & Death  80th Birthday

 Helped build up and organize 600 Boys Clubs of America  At 88 went to West Branch  “I am ready to serve in any capacity, from office boy up.”  Finals years her wrote, Hoover Institution on War,

Revolution, and Peace.  90th birthday 16 states declared August 10th Herbert Hoover Day  Died October 20th  Funeral at Cedar Rapid Iowa  Buried next to Lou

 “Herbert Hoover, for all of his early optimism

and organized skills, was defeated by The Depression and its crushing economic problems.”

Bibliography  American Odyssey. Westerville, OH: Glencoe, 1976.  Holford, David M. Herbert Hoover. Library of Congress, 1999.  Polikoff, Barbara G. Herbert C. Hoover. Ada, OK: Garrett

Education Corportation, 1990.  Wilson, Joan H. Heart Hoover Forgotten Progressive. Little, Brown and Company, 1975.  Andrist, Ralph K. The American Hertiage History of the 20's & 30's. NY: American Hertiage Co., 1970.  http://home.nps.gov/heho/photosmultimedia/birthplace.htm

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